How to Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1607747065 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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In How to Get Dressed, Alison distills her secrets into a fun, comprehensive style guide focused on rethinking your wardrobe like a fashion expert and making what’s in your closet work for you. Including helpful information such as how to skip ironing and the dry cleaners, remove every stain under the sun, and help clueless men get their sartorial acts together, How to Get Dressed has hundreds of insider tips from Alison’s arsenal of tools and expertise.. TV and film productions wait for nothing, so her solutions have to work fast. Costume designer Alison Freer’s styling kit is a magical bag of tricks, built to solve every single wardrobe malfunction on earth. She provides real-world advice about everything style-related, including: • Making every garment you own fit better &bu
"Useful, Practical Tips from a Witty, Funny Chick" according to Jillian Hastings. Alison Freer is a Hollywood costume designer, and I've followed her style articles on the website xoJane for years. Her advice online has never led me astray, and I've used many of her tips to great success (including making my own wax-coated denim). I was obviously super excited about her book, and I have to say, it didn't disappoint!How to Get Dressed is like Lucky Magazine or Cosmo, if either of those magazines were actually remotely useful. Where fashion magazines fall short, How to Get Dressed delivers. It's not a book about fashion, but about style. It's not about trends, but . i'm not even disorganized, nor do I try to look hot, but it still helped a LOT! Jane Doe It jumps through topics a little faster than I'd prefer, and could use more text-illustrative-images (still trying to figure out what a "circle skirt" is), but it has answered questions I've held for years (do I really need to dry clean?), has so many specific fabric cleaning directions that I'll be adding flags and using it as a reference in my laundry room, and it inspired me to sort/ re-organize my closets, boosted by the truth of her argument that it's better to have some well-coordinated outfits than a huge collection of varied but poorly fitting items.So, as a result, I've bou. Make Your Clothes Work For You It's hard to know where to start on this review, because I loved *so many* things about the book, but I'll try to go in order!It's wonderfully inclusive. Too much fashion advice focuses on one body type, narrow gender expression, what's "flattering" rather than what you love. How To Get Dressed does none of that. It's got advice for everyone. It doesn't treat one type of body as more worthy of feeling and looking beautiful than any other. The author doesn't just use feminine pronouns, but uses "people who" as well, and talks directly to the reader frequently through the book. You ca
. With more than 150 TV shows, films, commercials, and music videos under her belt, she has reams of hard-won, practical wardrobe expertise at her fingertips. Alison is also a contributing editor to Racked, in addition to hosting TLC's A Makeover Story during its fifth season. She also appeared on Melissa River's TV Candy on the TV Guide network as the show's resident style expert. ALISON FREER is a c
Her new book How To Get Dressed gets to the nitty-gritty of revamping your wardrobe."--Huffington Post"Freer is refreshingly down-to-earth in her first book, which is packed full of helpful tips for building and maintaining a stylish wardrobe for those looking for a comprehensive and highly readable clothes-care book, this is the one."--Publishers Weekly“Alison really nails the basics of good style while allowing room for readers to inject their own personality into a look. Her tips tackle clothing fitting issues, closet organization, undergarment truths, brilliant thrifting tips, and more. Her purrrfect fashion advice will have you looking your very best (but not better than moi!). As a result, this book is crammed full of wardrobe tricks that really work and is a truly indispensable guide to getting dressed." --Nancy Jo Sales, Author of The Bling Ring and contributing editor at